A Different City
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Night is falling, and shadows are gathering in crowds across the city, bronze and sable, flickering, or still as stone.
There is always an audience here, for anything – human, beast or object – that comes close to tell its story, or betray its deadly secret...
What now? Heartless unkindness – lust for riches – suppressed hatred and rage honed to a razor–? Or some epic sorrow passed into a silver scream.
Above everything, the drifting and unavoidable webs of the spinning City gods.
So, will you listen in the shadows, or become yourself a story-teller in the bronze half-light?
Or do you have another mission here, in Marcheval?
A new triumphant trio of dark fantasy stories, in the vein of Tanith Lee's previous imaginary city novels of Paradys and Venus.
Customer Reviews
Three Tales from the Fantastic City of Marcheval
This is a collection of three stories by the late great mistress of fantasy, Tainth Lee. It was reportedly published in 2015, so it was one of her last works released before her death. The stories takes place in Marcheval, a fantasy city described by the author in the introduction as "a smoky sibling of Marseilles...”
The book consists of three tales, which are all dark fantasy, and are novella length. They have no connection other than the setting in Marcheval. “Not Stopping at Heaven” tells the tale of a aging yet seemingly innocent lady who is pursued by a cad for her wealth. “Idoll” is the story of a young girl sent away to live with strange relatives. “The Portrait in Gray” is the strongest tale in my mind, and tells the story of a masterwork of a painting that exacts just revenge on its subject.
No one writes stories like Tainth Lee. These are emotional and immersive, and all three have varying touches of darkness. In the introduction, Lee hints that she might have had more stories to tell us about Marcheval, unfortunately it seems we will never get these tales…